Where an empty sidewalk once was, a barbershop has emerged. The line grows four deep, the patrons whiling away the time with a dice game on the pavement. Not far away, a woman sells plastic cups of ...

Skid Row, often referred to as the epicenter of L.A.’s homeless crisis, is gaining a new reputation as the city’s overdose capital as an increase in fentanyl use drives record-setting fatalities.

Migrant children Celeste, 5, left, and her brother Dylan, 8, from Columbia, stand in the open door of the car they have been sleeping in with their parents, Jaidelin Chacon and Jose Gregorio Salina, ...

For more than a century, skid row has been a community of last resort. In the early 20th century, it was the area, on the east side of downtown, where the railroad ended, depositing immigrants and men ...

From the courtyard balcony on the 19th story of the new residential tower, Skid Row seems small and distant below. Its barely visible tents and shanties melt into vistas of the downtown skyline and ...